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Rafael Wiltz

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Senior Software Engineer XR at NVIDIA
📍 Ashburn, Virginia, United States

Rafael Wiltz is a Senior XR Software Engineer at NVIDIA, currently leading the Isaac Labs XR Teleop team. With a decade of experience, his career includes developing flight simulators at Lockheed Martin and leading the perception framework development for the Magic Leap 2. He holds a Computer Engineering degree from Florida International University.

He transitioned from developing critical features for military flight simulators to pioneering perception frameworks for consumer augmented reality devices.

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Experience
11 Years
Current Role
Senior Software Engineer XR
Job Level
Middle
Location
Ashburn, Virginia, United States
Personality Overview

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Assertive
Curious

They can sound friendly and charming but can quickly change gears to become inquisitive and probing. They are likely to ask many questions and look heavily for supporting information. They are generally strong communicators and are not easy to convince.

Priorities

Topics Rafael cares about

XR Development
His entire recent career is focused on AR/XR software engineering at NVIDIA and Magic Leap, and he has publicly posted about advancements like OpenXR runtimes.
Robotics & Teleoperation
As the engineering lead for the Isaac Lab XR Teleop project at NVIDIA, he is directly involved in the remote operation of robots through extended reality.
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Career

Work history

3-2024
Senior Software Engineer XR
NVIDIA
1-2024 - 3-2024
Staff Software Engineer
Magic Leap
8-2021 - 1-2024
Lead Software Engineer
Magic Leap
7-2019 - 8-2021
Senior Software Engineer
Magic Leap
5-2016 - 7-2019
Software Engineer
Lockheed Martin
In the press

Media appearances

Author: Rafael Wiltz | NVIDIA Technical Blog. Featured in NVIDIA Developer Blog
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Education
2008 - 2014
Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering
Florida International University
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